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Some studios have vanity plates that are recognized everywhere. The moment you see a ring of stars swirling into place above a serene-looking mountain, for example, you know you're looking at a Paramount production. That little kid who tosses a fishing line into the water while sitting in the crook of the moon is instantly recognizable as DreamWorks. Such logos, once they climb to a certain point of universal recognition and cause a globe to spin on the movie screens, are a sure fire form of brand name recognition.

Every once in a while, though, a creator will have fun with it. The Vanity Plate will be changed in some way, just enough to put a new spin on it usually being tied into the movie it's featured in. Match Cuts are also a common form of this. More rarely, the logo will show up in a scene in the middle of the show.

Examples:

DC Comics used a custom logo scheme for its films from 2005 to 2011 (the Dark Knight Trilogy, Superman Returns, Jonah Hex, The Losers, Green Lantern). The logos in those films are shaded the color of the hero they’re about (green, blue) and features comic-book pages of those heroes.

In Man of Steel, the logo is colored steel gray.

Some DC Universe Animated Original Movies have a character briefly featured behind the "fold" in DC's 2012-2016 logo. In Batman: Assault on Arkham, the logo features an image of Harley Quinn.

DC Comics (along with WB) has this in effect for its TV serials. Each DC logo has a picture of the respective hero of that serial. Additionally:

Arrow’s logos are green and have arrows flying behind them.

Gotham’s logos are dark greay and have rainfall.

The Flash’s logos are red and yellow and crackle with lightning.

Supergirl’s logos are red and blue and are brushed with by a cape.

Wonder Woman (2017) features a new DC logo that is inspired by the Justice League cartoon intro and Alex Ross's artwork.

DreamWorks and DreamWorks Animation

A popular way to open a DreamWorks Animation movie is to pan down from the scene with the boy in the moon, so even logos that are otherwise normal will have the sky altered to match the opening scene.

Shark Tale: The boy casts his line and the action switches to the worm at the end, which segues into the movie proper.

Medal of Honor: As the piano theme tune changes to a military fanfare, the boy throws away his fishing rod to pull out a rifle and put on a helmet. He then jumps off the moon, deploying a parachute, but it gets stuck at the bottom of the moon.

The Ring: The moon becomes the Ring for a split second, along with videotape glitches.

Shrek: The S in both "DreamWorks" and "SKG" turn green and grow ogre ears. The series leitmotif "Fairlytale" also substitutes the normal logo fanfare; said score track would later become the normal DreamWorks Animation theme.

Small Soldiers for PlayStation: The Commando Elite climb up the line and tie the kid up.

How to Train Your Dragon: a Night Fury flies around in the background. This otherwise introduces the new vanity plate for DreamWorks Animation (which exploits the 3D with a more elaborate fishline-swinging). The usual pan down opening shot is inverted as the scene transitions by the night fury flying in front of the logo, revealing it to be a reflection in the water, which then follows a pan up to the opening scene.

Halloween SpecialScared Shrekless: The boy is scared by a wolf howl and hides behind the crescent moon.

Puss in Boots: The animation is accompanied by lively Spanish music, including the sound of a whip-crack which coincides with the boy casting out his fishing line.

Rise of the Guardians: Jack Frost takes the boy's place in the crescent moon, his staff in the place of the fishing rod. He lazily knocks the snowflake off towards the screen, causing the camera to zoom out, and the 'DreamWorks' title then freezes up with frost and explodes into snowflakes.

The Croods: The logo is painted on a cave wall, then flakes off and is blown away.

Dinotrux: Revvit puts the finishing touches on carving a Dreamworks logo that features Ty Rux and him fishing on the moon into the rock, and uses his tail air blower to blow the dust away.

Home: The boy is sucked up into a Boov transport and is then replaced by a Boov who then casts the fishing line.

Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh: Oh is in the moon in place of the boy, he fishes up the controller for his saucer, and activates it, flying off into the opening proper.

Voltron: Legendary Defender: Voltron cuts a chunk out of the moon leaving only the crescent shape remaining, standing behind it where the boy would normally go.

All Hail King Julien: Julien sits in a straw moon hanging above the jungle, pulls up his line to reveal that Mort is on the end, and then catches a shark. Mort yells "I'm okay!" as Julien laughs.

Dragons: Riders of Berk: Hiccup and Toothless are sitting in the moon together, Hiccup is reading a book while Toothless has a fishing line tied to his tail. Toothless then fires on the camera, which Match Cuts with the opening, depicting Hiccup and Toothless flying out of the moon.

Trollhunters: The Amulet of Merlin opens into the crescent moon, Jim steps out of the crescent where the fishing boy would go and holds his sword high.

Spirit Riding Free: A horse steps on a twig lying in the dirt, its hoof-print making a vaguely moon-shaped impression with the silhouette of Lucky sitting in the place of the fishing boy; the twig serving as her fishing rod.

In The Curse of Monkey Island the game starts with the letters C M I done in the style of the THX sound preface, complete with the THX noise, with their slogan replaced with "The monkeys are listening."

The end credits of Day of the Tentacle featured Purple Tentacle scaring the Gold Guy away and taking his place.

Big Sky Trooper: The Slug leader and a lackey descend on the Gold Man, discuss how it has bones and appears to be an ad, then destroy it - as the Slug leader declares, the two things he hates are bones and advertising.

Star Wars: Starfighter: The Gold Man ducks under a Naboo starfighter as it flies above him, then hangs on for dear life as he finds himself on the nose of another one.

Bounty Hunter: Jango ties up the Gold Man and yanks him off the logo, then flies onto it with his jetpack and uses his flamethrower to produce his own golden arc to hold. That gold guy just can't keep his job, can he?

In Grim Fandango we see the Gold Man turn into a skeleton, with the ray above also skeletonized.

The trailer for the cancelled Sam & Max: Freelance Police!! features the Gold Man investigating the logo with a magnifying glass. He drops it, causing the logo to shatter like glass.

Secret Weapons Over Normandy features the Gold Man come under attack by a German fighter plane, and then rescued by an American fighter, before wiping his brow in relief and projecting the arc.

Marvel Comics

When Marvel was collaborating with Sunbow cartoons, its logo had a CGI Spider-Man leap in the air and land on the logo. The overall look of the logo (including Spidey's eyes lighting up after he lands and contors over the logo) was a prime source of Accidental Nightmare Fuel.

Marvel Comics utilized a custom logo scheme for its non-MCU films from 2003 (Hulk, The Punisher, Elektra, Tim Story’s Fantastic Four films, X-Men The Last Stand, Ghost Rider, Logan). The logos in those films are shaded the color of the hero they’re about (red, green, blue, black) and features comic-book pages of those heroes.

Spider-Man: Homecoming: While the Sony and Columbia logos are treated straight, the Marvel Studios logo replaces the standard music accompanying the logo with an orchestral arrangement of the classic Spider-Man cartoon theme ("Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Does whatever a spider can...")

Thor: Ragnarok: The logo glows as red-hot as the lava seen in the opening scene's background.

Metro Goldwyn Mayer

On several different Tom and Jerry cartoons, principally those directed by Chuck Jones, Tanner the Lion is replaced by Tom, who gives his best housecat "roar".

At the end of "Switchin' Kitten", Jerry runs into a mouse hole and imitates the lion.

In "Tail In The Trap", the logo appears as a "Wanted!" Poster which gets shot at.

In "Sorry Safari", the words "A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon" appear over a cartoon lion from later in the short.

A few MGM cartoons from 1942 had Tanner roaring to the tune of the Tiger Rag.

The Tex Avery short "Batty Baseball" started with no logo, just the title of the short. After about 30 seconds into the action, one of the players pauses to ask the narrator what happened to the MGM logo. The narrator apologizes and we then see the logo and credits.

In the trailer for A Night at the Opera, the lion was replaced by the Marx Brothers themselves, under the banner "Marx Gratia Marxes" (instead of "Ars Gratia Artis"), each taking turns miming the lion's roar. (When it was Harpo, his ever-present taxi-horn sounded instead.)

Strange Brew: Standard MGM opening, but the lion, instead of roaring, belches and appears disinterested. The camera then pulls back from the logo and pans towards the Great White North set, where Bob and Doug are trying to make him roar to no avail. A few minutes later, the lion roars in the background, and Bob comments, "Geez, now that hoser's growling!"

Silent Movie: The Big Picture Studios logo is essentially that of MGM, but with the studio boss in place of the lion and a seal barking replacing the roar.

Steve Irwin's The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course had an alligator instead of the lion.

The trailer for the film had Irwin stepping into the frame and commenting on the lion.

The opening of the Sherie Lewis Home Entertainment series from MGM/UA Home Video would start with a painting of the MGM lion logo. The fanfare plays, And then Lamb Chop pops through the board (similar to Looney Tunes' Porky Pig breaking out the drum) and remarks "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists present the Shari Lewis Home Entertainment library. Rawr!"

The Movie of Josie and the Pussycats (a co-production between Universal and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) begins with Boy Band music playing over the Universal logo but is immediately followed by the MGM logo as the music continues, with the lion morphing into a squealing teenage girl.

The trailer for Clean Slate has the main character's dog in place of the lion doing the roar. This wasn't in the film though (which instead had a special "70th Anniversary" logo shown on MGM's 1994 lineup).

Robocop 2014. Instead of the lion roaring, we have the sound of talk show host Pat Novak doing vocal warm-up exercises.

Dr. Strangelovewas going to have one. Specifically, the film would be presented by "Macro-Galaxy-Meteor Pictures" instead, and instead of the lion, there's, as the script describes, "A WEIRD, HYDRA-HEADED, FURRY CREATURE". This tied in with the unused Framing Device of the movie being presented as a Found Footage film discovered by aliens and presented as part of a documentary series called "The Dead Worlds of Antiquity".

In Of Thee I Sing, the election night newsreel ends with the MGM lion opening its mouth, not to roar, but to crow like the Pathé rooster.

MTM Productions/Enterprises

Mary Tyler Moore's film company, MTM, uses a logo that is a parody of the MGM logo, using a meowing kitten (acquired from an animal shelter and nicknamed "Mimsey") instead of a roaring lion. MTM has used variations of its own logo for various shows produced by them over the years.

For Christmas Episodes, such as those on The Bob Newhart Show, Mimsey was shown encircled by a Christmas wreath in place of the usual gold ribbon. Although the original ribbon appears for a split-second, possibly due to an editing error.

At the end of the "Put on a Happy Face" episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary Tyler Moore herself appeared in place of Mimsey and mouthed the words "Th-th-th-that's all folks!"

At the end of the 1991 Mary Tyler MooreReunion Show, Mimsey does not meow, she says "Bye!" in Mary Tyler Moore's voice.

Similarly, a blooper reel for the final season ends with an audio swap of Mary saying "Bye!" and the cat.

On videos produced by MTM Home Video, the kitten holds a remote control. After meowing, the kitten hits "rewind". The picture winds backwards (and loses color), and the kitten meows again.

The Duck Factory: Before the logo starts, a voiceover asks "Where's the cat?" or "Here's the cat!" The cat then quacks.

Eisenhower and Lutz: Mimsey's "meow" is sung by a group.

The Graham Kerr Show: As befits a Cooking Show, the kitten wore a chef's hat. Also, her head does not move as much.

On the short-lived series Texas Wheelers an extremely rare variant features a cute black & white kitty outside looking around.

The New WKRP in Cincinnati: Instead of a meow, you hear Les Nessman saying "Ooooh!".

For Remington Steele the cat wears a Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap and has a meerschaum pipe in her mouth; when she meows, the pipe falls and lands in front of the word "Productions".

Also, there is a mockup on YouTube, but the letters move slowly, and Mimsey drops a gun, firing a hole into an "M".

St. Elsewhere: The kitten is dressed for surgery in mask and smock. In the final episode, the kitten appeared above the closing credits, hooked up to life support machinery, and flatlined at the end of the credits, with the normal, rather upbeat show theme playingnote though in the original broadcast, a network promo voiceover covered up the theme for most of the credits sequence. (This variant doesn't always appear when shown in syndication.)

Lou Grant, Paris, the theatrical release Just Between Friends, and the pilot for Three for the Road all feature a silent, still image of Mimsey in lieu of the meowing.

Speaking of Three for the Road, that short-lived show's final episode had an unusual variation: after Mimsey meowed, the gold ribbon and the shot of Mimsey within turned upside down for no apparent reason. This was also used in the last episode of the 1970s series Friends And Lovers.

Note that the variants are all exclusive to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and so the entries refer to episodes of that show.

"Becoming, Part 2": The zombie says "Ohhh, I need a hug." (This was the episode where Buffy killed Angel and left Sunnydale.)

"Amends" puts the zombie in a Santa Claus hat.

"Graduation Day, Part 2" puts the zombie in a graduation cap.

At the end of "Storyteller", the zombie sings, "We are as gods!"

"Once More With Feeling": the zombie sings "Grrr... argh."

"Bargaining, Part 1": the signoff is actually included in the episode itself, with Tara putting on a zombie finger puppet and going "grrr... argh."

"Chosen", the final episode of the series: the zombie looks at the camera, growls, then keeps walking.

Parodied in an episode of Robot Chicken, with the zombie doing the normal "Grrr... argh." before going on a rampage and killing people. The scene then cuts to show that it's Joss Whedon messing around, as an executive walks in and says, "Come on, Joss. That's why you got kicked off Wonder Woman."

The Core: As it finishes, it zooms into the mountain, then starts to move down to the core of the earth.

Event Horizon: The camera flies past the mountain and into a black hole in space as the opening credits roll.

The trailer for Everybody Wants Some!! features the end of the 1980-era Paramount logo, but with the Viacom byline in its contemporary font, making it almost indistinguishable from the studio's current print logo. (The film itself has the stock 2016 logo sequence.)

Exit Through the Gift Shop: As seen on the poster, guerrilla artist Banksy's vanity production company is Paranoid Pictures, whose logo is very similar to Paramount's.

Four Brothers: Blowing snow begins to swirl around the mountain, and causes the logo to become more and more obscured.

And there's the gag before the fade, as the mountain itself is not of the contemporary design: keeping in tune with the period during which the movies are set, they use the logo from the 1950s.

The Last Airbender: The Paramount stars are accompanied with splashes of water and "hit" the logo, causing it to freeze. The Nickelodeon Movies logo afterwards is on fire, and gets covered by earth.

The Little Prince: For its international release, the sky around the Paramount logo glows bright-yellow as the stars reach the mountain, and there are several larger gold stars that come into focus as the sequence ends.

Nebraska opens with the 1950s Paramount logo (though this time, with a Viacom byline at the corner).

At the end of the 1951 cartoon Alpine For You, after Popeye punches Bluto, Bluto slams into a mountain peak, forming stars around the mountain. After that, "A Paramount Picture" appears over said mountain, closing the cartoon. This joke was preserved on the AAP prints.

Hope: Hey, get a load of that bread and butter! (Cut to a shot of a snow-covered mountain) Crosby: Bread and butter? That's a mountain! (The "Paramount Pictures" logo suddenly appears in front of said mountain) Hope: Maybe a mountain to you, but it's bread and butter to me!

Scrooged: Amid holiday caroling in the background, the camera zooms past the logo and into the sky to focus on a star above a bed of clouds.

Soap Dish: White bubbles begin to fill up the frame as the logo appears.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Sonic the Hedgehog 4 actually had Sonic run to the right of the screen to make half of the logo appear, and then run back to the left to complete the logo. Trailers for Sonic 4: Episode 1 have a black background, with Sonic (in the form of a blue streaking blur) coming towards the viewer three times, the third time in the middle of the screen and leaving the Sega logo in his wake.

Sonic 3 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles displayed the Sega logo, then the background turns black and Sonic jumps out from behind the logo. And then the screen flashes white for a second before cutting to the Sonic 3 title screen.

Sonic & Knuckles on its own starts out just like the Sonic 3 version, but the background behind the logo fades into Sonic and the Death Egg falling through the sky, with the Death Egg landing in the volcano and causing the Sega logo to shake itself out of existence.

The Game Gear version of Sonic the Hedgehog depicts Sonic jumping back and forth, forming the logo, as a reference to Japanese Sega ads that would end with a clay model of Sonic doing the same thing.

The second game actually sets up the plot, showing Psy-Crow distracting Jim long enough to kidnap Princess What's-Her-Name. For this reason, it was the only Saturn game to retain its Genesis brethren's Sega logo as well as one of the few Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy Advance and DOS games to have a real Logo Jokenote In those cases, it's done over, respectively, the "Licensed by Nintendo" screen, the Majesco logo and the Funsoft logo.. The PS1 version, on the other hand, outright axed the logo.

The special edition of the first game Jim performing a variety of inane acts on a Deliberately Monochrome Sega logo (Sega CD) or on the title screen (PC).

The Magical Taruruuto-kunLicensed Game has Taruruuto-kun doing the "Seee-Gaaa!" shout.

Panic! for the Sega CD opens with the letters in the logo all mixed up so that they read "GASE", accompanied by an edited version of the clip used for the Sonic games: "Gaaa-Seee". Then Slap and Stick (the game's protagonists) fall from above and land on the logo, which snaps back to normal and is accompanied by the standard "Seee-Gaaa!"

The Magic School Bus on Genesis did similar by initially spelling the logo "ASEG" before the Magic School Bus bumps the "A" from below, snapping the logo back to normal. No voiceover though.

Ristar has the logo letters forming in space in black and white, with calm music playing. After they form, Ristar says "Come On!"

Similarly, the Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA series (done by the same staff as the K-On! game) opens with Miku singing the SEGA sound. Later on, Rin, Len, Luka, KAITO, and MEIKO can also heard singing the jingle.

Puyo Puyo Tetris has various different characters singing the jingle; one is selected at random.

Another of Ubisoft's includes the Raving Rabbids series. Most notably in Rabbids Go Home, where after the logo appears, the 2-D Rabbids seen during level intros run in and swipe the logo in their cart.

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag includes, right after Ubisoft, the Abstergo Entertainment Logo, the The Omniscient Council of Vagueness and Big Bad for the franchise. This is a justified joke, as the whole plot is that Abstergo is producing this very same video game as a facade for their real plans, and to get money so.. Congratulations, you just gave the big bads sixty bucks!

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier has the Ubisoft and "Tom Clancy's" logos fading in from the trippy background that's supposed to represent the game's Diegetic Interface. Following that is a shot of three shell casings falling to the ground, with the names of the Ubisoft divisions that developed the game printed on them.

Rayman Origins shows Lums being sucked into the logo vortex, accompanied by sound effects from the game mixed in with the jingle. Afterwards, Globox smacks the Ubisoft logo, transitioning it into the UbiART logo. This same logo sequence is reused in Rayman Legends.

At the intro of Myst IV: Revelation, after the logo appears, it explodes and changes into the symbol for Tomahna, with the words "Team Revelation" below it. Then it fades into the window that Atrus is looking out of in his study.

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon loads to a logo sequence done in an 80s style, complete with VHS scan lines and a superimposed play symbol.

Some prints of the infamous Heaven's Gate had the words "A Transamerica Company" fading underneath the hexagon underneath.

The James Bond film For Your Eyes Only originally began with a UA logo similar to the 1975 logo, but with the "Entertainment from Transamerica Corporation" byline from 1968 fading underneath. Given the year this film came out (1981), and the situation UA was going through at the time, this could be interpreted as UA saying "Farewell" to Transamerica, after 14 years.

The indie film Undertow used the early 1980's version of the United Artists logo rather than the current United Artists logo as the film's director wanted the logo to tie in with the film's setting.

The 'Burbs: The Universal Globe appears (in a rendition done specially for the movie by Industrial Light and Magic). The text fades out, leaving only the globe, into which the camera then zooms until it turns into a flyover shot of the town the film takes place in.

In the first film it doesn't appear until the Flintstones go to the drive-in (accompanied by the Revue/Universal Television logo music of the 1960s!), whereas Viva Rock Vegas begins with this variation - actually noticed in the movie by the Great Gazoo ("Did anyone else see those big letters circling the planet?").

The Wolfman (2010) features two versions. In the theatrical cut, the Universal Earth reveals a full moon. The unrated director's cut kept the Art-Deco Globe logo featured in the original 1941 version, albeit a darker version.

The secret probation edition of National Lampoon's Animal House DVD tile has the universal earth get bigger and bigger until it explodes...with John Belushi's character Bluto exclaiming "I'm a zit, get it?".

Also inverted or something when Lucas Lee makes his entrance to the tune of the original fanfare.

Pitch Perfect has the Universal fanfare performed a capella then cuts to characters performing it; the sequel begins with the fanfare done as a duet by Elizabeth Banks and John Michael Higgins. (Coincidentally, Anna Kendrick is in these movies and the above Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.)

Like the Pitch Perfect example above, Minions features said little yellow people singing along with the fanfare. One of them even holds a note even after the fanfare is over, that he ends up passing out at the Illumination Entertainment logo.

The 2010 documentary Catfish, about social media, replicates the Universal logo by using a computer cursor to spin a mildly pixelized Brand X version of Google Earth. Production companies Relativity Media and Rogue Pictures are pixelized and represented as a desktop icon, respectively.

The international release of Josie and the Pussycats had the Universal logo turn into a tongue ring shown on a screaming girl's tongue. Although the film opens with both logos, this variation is not on the US release (which got the MGM logo joke seen above; the joke appears on the logo of the company that didn't release it in that territory).

The Last Remake of Beau Geste had a variation of 1936 Art Deco Globe” with continents on it, followed by Marty Feldman walking in, knocking off all the letters over the sound of glass breaking, stopping the globe, and forming it into a cube, causing all the continents (except for Africa, where the story takes place) to fall off.

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life: The music stops with a record-scratching noise, and the globe starts getting smacked against something. Which turns out to be the result of God trying to fit the round Earth into a square hole.

Ted begins with the standard Universal logo (the 100th Anniversary logo in this case), following which it takes a zoom into the globe to arrive on our hero's home.

Oblivion (2013): The logo has a ruined, bombed-out Earth with the "Tet" space station floating over it. And the Odyssey in its blind spot on the opposite side of the planet.

Waterworld: The Universal Studios spinning-planet logo shows the ocean levels rising up and flooding the continents. The camera zooms into the globe down to sea level, and the Mariner's boat, starting the movie.

Xanadu: A recreation of the 1929 Universal globe with biplane flying around opens the film. As the opening credits appear, the globe remains on screen and a succession of increasingly modern flying machines (four-engine airliner, Concorde, flying saucer) emerge from behind the Earth. The music changes in different styles of music as the objects appear.

In the original release of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the Universal logo runs backwards (as if to emphasize the space bearing on the plot); in the 2002 special edition, the iconic "bike silhouette" flies in front of the logo.

The Sting opens with a sepia-tinted version of the 1936-46 Art Deco logo.

In Unfriended, the logo becomes pixelated and the audio quality worsens, the fanfare sounding like a ghastly moan by the end.

The 2011 film, The Little Engine That Could has the titular engine pulling the Universal logo.

For The Mummy (2017) (and possibly the rest of the Dark Universe), the Universal logo proceeds as normal... until the end, where the camera lingers on the Earth as ominous music plays. It then rotates around the Earth, zooming in on the "U" of "Universal" in the process. The Dark Universe logo then rotates into view, the camera zooming out to reveal the dark side of the Earth illuminated by a hellish aura.

American Made has the 2012 indent play for a few seconds before abruptly cutting to the 1963 logo (with Comcast byline). The other producer plates (Cross Creek, Imagine, and Hercules Film Fund) receive similar makeovers. 1980s era TV clips also play in-between each logo.

Sherlock Holmes: The WB shield, Village Roadshow Pictures logo, and Silver Pictures square appear as metal-worked sewer covers on a cobblestone street. The camera then pulls back to reveal the street as part of the movie's opening chase.

Constantine: The Warner Bros. logo starts out in front of the traditional blue sky with fluffy white clouds. Then the sky and clouds turn red and the logo crumbles and blows away, which is a reference to events later in the movie when Constantine goes to Hell. Again.

Dreamcatcher : The Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow logos are covered in snow, while the Castle Rock Entertainment lighthouse beams its light across a lake covered in snow.

Osmosis Jones: The logo appears as a one-celled organism floating in a dark background.

Gremlins 2: The New Batch: This movie's 1990 release coincided with the 50th anniversary of the first Bugs Bunny cartoon, so Bugs is lounging on top of the WB shield when it zooms into view. Daffy Duck immediately appears and attempts to usurp his place. The characters reappear during the closing credits.

The trailer for Batman Begins had the WB shield dissolving into hundreds of bats.

The classic Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies cartoons traditionally began with the WB shield surrounded by brightly colored concentric rings. Some twists: Many of the classic Bugs Bunny cartoons start with Bugs reclining on the shield, and in some cases pulling down the card reading "Looney Tunes" or "Merrie Melodies".

One Road Runner cartoon ended with the Coyote essentially quitting, and placing a sign in view advertising for "one gullible coyote" to speak to the movie theater manager, then pulling the closing "Th-Th-That's All Folks" card onto the screen.

"Lumberjack-Rabbit", the only Bugs Bunny cartoon in 3-D, started with the WB shield bouncing toward the audience, nearly filling the screen before settling to its normal size, in an effort to play with the 3-D effects.

This was also reused for the 2003 Looney Tunes shorts WB made in a short-lived revival attempt (for tying in with Looney Tunes: Back in Action), but the effect was not as convincing. It was also reused on the intro for The Looney Tunes Show, but seemed partly out-of-place because the show wasn't produced in 3-D. Finally, the variant was reused to much better effect in the CGI Looney Tunes theatrical shorts, but non-Road Runner cartoons had the usual animation of the shield zooming into the final position without overshooting it, but redone in CG.

In "Porky in Wackyland" (and the remake "Dough for the Do-Do"), the Do-Do rides the WB shield as it emerges from the vanishing point, bops Porky on the head and rides it back out of sight.

A variation: For many of their TV cartoons and animated movies, WB would use an intro with Bugs Bunny leaning on the shield and eating a carrot while the last few notes of the Merrie Melodies theme plays. Animaniacs replaced it with the last four notes of their theme ("Those are the facts!"), and that was used until 2008 (at which point, a remade intro returned the Merrie Melodies tune).

Later, "The Making of Kon Ducki" showed the Warner lot's water tower with the caption "AFTER WE BOOTED OUT COLUMBIA." note Columbia Pictures had been renting half of the Warner lot from WB since 1972, and WB's purchase of Lorimar also got them the old Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot — which they promptly sold to Columbia not long after Sony bought them.

In Green Lantern, the logo as a power ring construct, as well as the DC logo.

The normally bright sky for the background of the logo is replaced with grim, overcast conditions for Twister; the clouds part briefly to reveal the WB shield and then cover it again. The movie was released outside North America by Universal, however (it was a co-production between the two studios), and it's their logo which is revealed internationally... leaving the impression that the solar system is in the middle of a storm.

Mortal Kombat 9 has the camera go around from one side of the WB water tower (with the WB logo on the tower and the normally bright sky background) to the other side (with the WB Games logo and, uhhh, a Mortal Kombat dragon logo skyline).

Lollipop Chainsaw does a similar gag, starting with the tower having a sparkly rainbow background, then turning around to a darker background with zombies being slaughtered.

In The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo episode "That's Monstertainment," the gang is sucked into an old monster movie playing the character roles. The movie starts with Scooby Doo's face in a mock-up of the M-G-M logo reading "A Ranna-Rarrera Extravaganza" below and "Limitus Animatus" around Scooby's face.

Scooby-Doo A Bite is taken out of the Warner Bros. shield, although you don't see him Scooby's laugh is heard. Then the logo dissapears and Scooby's Dog Tag reading "SD" appears, underneath it says 'A Mystery Inc. Company".

Magic Mike director Steven Soderbergh fought long and hard to convice Time Warner heads to allow him to use the Bass logo on the film (he also attempted to utilize it for his Ocean's Eleven movies, but was also shot down). It took the studio president's claims that it wouldn't destroy Warner Bros.' reputation did they finally give it a get-go. Soderbergh claimed that the logo harkened back to an era of "great American films" and expressed his admiration of Bass' work.

Since The Nice Guys is set in 1977, instead of the WB Shield it also opens with the Saul Bass Warner Communications logo that Warner used at the time the movie is set.

On the 2009 version of The Firm, the shield glows neon colors and the fanfare is replaced by Soft Cell's "Tainted Love".

Where the Wild Things Are: Each of the logos are static, and have apparently been drawn on by Max. The WB logo has a "wild thing" sort of shape drawn around it, with Max scribbling over the Time Warner byline and replacing it with his name. The Legendary Pictures logo has Max drawing a monster eating it. The Village Roadshow logo has Max turning the logo into his own name, with the "V" becoming an upside down "A", and a crude sword along the bottom of the logo.

Yogi Bear has the Warner Bros. logo in green and wood-paneled. The sky in the background is also done in a more realistic style than the animated sky usually seen.

You've Got M@il : The background changes into a computer screen and the Warner Brothers logo moves to up-left corner.

In Man of Steel, The Warner Brothers, Legendary Pictures, DC Comics and Syncopy Inc logos appear in swirls and bends of Kryptonian metal, similar to a Kryptonian computer display.

Wrath of the Titans : The Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures logos are each scrawled on a wall.

The LEGO Batman Movie opens with Batman commenting on the aesthetics of the WB shield and the logos of the other production companies involved in the film.

The LEGO Ninjago Movie has the WB, Warner Animation Group, and Ratpac logos presented in a way reminiscent of vintage film studio logos from China and Hong Kong. Text at the bottom consists of Asian-like characters as well as that reading "in Lego Scope".

Get Smart: The Warner Brothers logo is a CONTROL-like door, and the Village Roadshow logo is a billboard.

Ghost Ship uses the 1948-1967 Warner logo to tie in with its grisly 1962 prologue scene. Because Village Roadshow and Dark Castle Entertainment didn't exist in '62, their logos had to settle for a sepia tone instead.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow logos emerge in an overcast, snowy sky, setting up the long tracking shot around and into the factory that most of the opening credits are run over, and Danny Elfman's score substitutes for the "As Time Goes By" music.

Orphan: The WB and Dark Castle logos are covered in glow paint that flicker on and off, foreshadowingEsther's usage of UV paint to hide the "Crazy" part of her Room Full of Crazy in the movie itself. Additionally, Dark Castle is missing its gargoyle head.

In the film adaptation of Watchmen, all of the logos (Warner Brothers, Paramount, Legendary Pictures, DC Comics) are rendered in static, monotone black on a yellow background with the "Futura Condensed" font when applicable, mimicking the cover of the comic book.

For The Powerpuff Girls Movie, Cartoon Network had every single character that the studio created sitting in a movie theater, continuously blinking their eyes as the projector in that theater started to roll and the camera started to pan out. As the lights in the theater dimmed and the camera had each seat in full view, the eyes, still visible in the dark, continued to blink until they slowly formed the then-current Cartoon Network logo.

The Cat in the Hat: The Universal, DreamWorks and Imagine Entertainment logos are all drawn and colored Dr. Seuss style. Plus, the DreamWorks logo's kid is wearing the titular hat, and you can see Fish-In-a-Dish swim away in the ripples of the Imagine logo. By far, the only good thing about this atrocity of a movie.

The third and current "Cartoon Network Studios" logo is a grungy, 1992 version of the network logo that stops blinking when a green scanner runs over it. However, most series/movies have it open up to some rough, animatic-like animation of the main characters (for example, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy has Grim trying to chop off Billy and Mandy's heads; Samurai Jack has Jack posing with his sword before making a quick slash and cutting the lines holding the logo open; etc).

The second version of the logo only had one variation: Dee Dee dances by it, causing some of the letters to spin. Dexter, shortly after, crashes through the logo in a giant robot.

One variation of the Cartoon Network Studios logo involves three squares jumping on a black background with a small clip from the show playing below. Regular Show and occasionally Adventure Time are the only shows with this logo so far.

The Amazing World of Gumball features a vanity plate on which a bug jumps on the classic Cartoon Network logo, lighting it up as it jumps. It then realizes that the last part of the logo isn't lit up, so it jumps again. The bug then grins as the words "Development Studio Europe" appear below the logo.

Michael BayTransformers films: While the visuals are unchanged, the logos are accompanied by transformation sound effects.

Though in one fan-made trailer, two of the stars are replaced with the Autobot and Decepticon logos, then the spaceship from the 80's cartoon crashes into the Paramount mountain in a homage to that respective scene from the cartoon. Also, in said fan-made trailer's DreamWorks segment, Cybertron is reflected in the water instead of the crescent moon.

Minority Report: Fox and DreamWorks are black and white and look like they're underwater, to fit in the Precog tank opening scene.

David Fincherclaimed he did the Logo Joke purely as self-compensation for being disappointed by all the Artistic Title proposals pitched to himnote all of which being, in his words, "this sort of antique, sepia, old china cup kind of feeling [...] like a grandma’s idea of a title sequence" rather than out of any thematic integration to the film.

The parody The Silence of the Hams was apparently co-produced by Silvio Berlusconi Productions and... Thirtieth Century Wolf (which, confusingly, parodies Fox's name but the MGM logo, with the wolf howling in lieu of the lion growling).

In Meet the Parents, logo jokes are incorporated into the opening song, "A Fool In Love" by Randy Newman. A chorus can be heard singing "Look at the light coming out of the earth" at the beginning of the song, which coincides the Universal logo in the movie. Then, after a few lines by Randy, you hear the chorus singing "Look at the boy, sitting on the moon", which coincides with the DreamWorks logo. (Because the movie is handled outside North America by DreamWorks, this musical joke isn't heard on international prints.)

In The Smurfs 2, the white and blue hues of the Columbia Torch Lady's dress are more Smurf-like. A Smurf hat flies by her then lands on the title logo of Sony Pictures Animation. The fireworks on The K Entertainment Company logo are also colored Smurf blue instead of white as usual and if you look closely, you can notice some Smurfs on the rails.

American Hustle: 1976 Columbia logo. Atlas Entertainment and Annapurna Pictures were founded in The '90s and in 2011 respectively however, so they both had to make do with rendering their logos in the style of neon signs.

It's never spelled out in the text, but Holy Wood Hill in the Discworld book Moving Pictures is implied to be a worn-down, aged version of the Paramountain, and in Ginger's dreams is shown surrounded by huge stars (which is Fridge Horror when, as well as being a Shout-Out, these appear to be connected with the established large stars in the skies of the Dungeon Dimensions). Also, when they awaken the Golden Knight from his slumber beneath the Hill, Ginger is carrying a torch and Detritus bangs a gong. In Ginger's dream there's a lion roaring as well, but that never actually happens.

The Muppets Goes To The Movies has parodies of multiple film company logos, including Fozzie taking Leo's place for "Metro Goldwyn Bear" and Link Hogthrob on the gong for "J. Arthur Link".

Krampus features both the Universal Studios logo and the associated Legendary Pictures logo frosted over, with the word "Universal" coated in icicles.

Massive Entertainment's logo gets a similar treatment, as now silhouettes of American soldiers are seen dodging explosions in the foreground.

The SNES version of Mortal Kombat II has a hidden alternative intro: Shao Kahn walks next to the Acclaim logo and taunts it while Kintaro walks in from the right, roars and uses his teleport stomp attack to bend it downwards. Shao Kahn then taunts it again.

Another iguana example in Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion. The lizard is lounging on top of the Acclaimnote By that time, Iguana Entertainment was rebranded into Acclaim Studios Austin, but the iguana mascot was retained logo as usual, when lightning strikes it and turns it into a skeleton, which promptly falls apart.

Various NBA Jam games feature the iguana wearing a basketball jersey and spinning a basketball.

Holding the Z-button down on the Nintendo GameCube controller while turning on the system would play different music. Gives different results if you hold the button down on one controllers, or all four.

Banjo-Kazooie has the N64 logo walk into the frame and stop to watch a dragonfly whiz by. After a brief consideration on what it just saw, it shrugs and continues on its way. The Rareware logo then pops up, which is promptly crashed into by the dragonfly. Later in the intro, Mumbo plays a xylophone with the Nintendo logo on it (replaced with the Microsoft logo in the HD version).

Donkey Kong 64 has the N64 logo dancing to the beats of the opening drums.

Perfect Dark opens with the typical Nintendo and Rare logos looming out of the dark at first, then you are treated to the typical spinning N64 logo... and watch as it slowly changes into a spinning model of the PD logo instead.

Borderlands has the logo appear without the nVidia voice. Claptrap comes up, pounds on it, sighs, and then the Nvidia voice plays, making Claptrap go "Ta-da!"

A Boy and His Blob (Wii): The Boy and the Blob appear on the Majesco Entertainment logo, then the Boy throws a jellybean over to the nearby WayForward Technologies logo, which is strangely missing the "O"; the Blob moves over, eats the bean, and turns into the "O".

The Homestar Runner faux video game company Videlectrix has a logo with a white man running onscreen, tripping and falling, and then getting up in time with the music. In Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: 8-Bit Is Enough, Strong Bad himself takes the white man's place when he first enters the Videlectrix mainframe.

The Awexome Cross '98 game has The Cheat, inside a tire, run over the Videlectrix guy.

Peasant's Quest has the Videlectrix guy, carrying a sword and shield, trip and fall on his sword. When he doesn't get up on cue, the cue plays again. When there's still no response, a a lower note is played and the guy's leg goes limp.

Where's an Egg has a shady man walk in screen and shoot the Videlectrix logo. The shot ricochets off the logo and kills him.

Stinkoman: 20X6 has a Mega Man style version of the white man.

The early 90's Konami logo featured on their Mega Drive/Genesis, Super NES, and PC Engine games varied a little depending on the system (see them here). For SNES, the laser that shoots out at the beginning of the logo is purple, while the Genesis version is green, and the PCE version blue, and of course, the jingle sounds a little different on all three systems due to their differing sound-chips.

There are even more variations of the standard Konami logo for a few games. Playstation games had two major ones: the "Logo coming out of earth" one for Western-released games, and the "Walking Logo" one for Japan-released games; most of the Tokimeki Memorial games had the games' heroines cheerfully shouting "Konami!" as the logo appears ; and who could forget the legendary Metal Gear Solid Konami logo, whose music was a Shout-Out to Hideo Kojima's previous game Policenauts? (sadly, this and all other Policenauts references in the game were lost on gamers outside of Japan, due to the game never making it outside of Japanese territory)

No two Nitrome game will ever show the developer's logo forming in the exact same way. Test Subject Blue has the logo as blobs of Blue Enzyme, in Steamlands it's made out of two steam-tanks blasting away at each other, Fault Line has it formed from the nodes when two screens get joined together, etc...

In Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City, a basketball becomes the sphere in Electronic Arts' 1990s logo.

The cover for the NTSC version of MySims Kingdom has a bite taken out of the logo with crumbs falling down, courtesy of the hungry pig beside it.

At least some games in the series have the iconic plumbob appear over the logo before the title screen.

Rockstar Games loves to make use of this trope, examples from their flagship Grand Theft Auto franchise include:

Grand Theft Auto (Classic) (the first game) first depicts the logo for DMA (now Rockstar North) running along a white background, and then getting run over by a car. The Rockstar logo is, appropriate to the name, brought in with the sounds of cameras flashing and paparazzi shouting.

Grand Theft Auto 2 has police car lights rush past the DMA logo, causing it to spin out and fall to the ground.

Grand Theft Auto III has a faux-computer boot up saying "RAM OK" and "ROM OK" before forming the Rockstar logo using fast moving lines to create a wireframe.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has the Rockstar Games and Rockstar North logos appearing on screen with the sound of spray cans, kinda like graffiti (fitting for the game's 90s-era hip-hop mood).

The DS version of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has the logo appear on the outside of a suitcase full of drugs (based on one of the game's main mechanics), which then opens up to reveal the other Rockstar studios involved in the game's development. In the PSP version, however, the logos for various Rockstar studios involved in the game's development are shown through a moving train.

After having a rather mundane logo intro for the fourth numbered game in the series, Grand Theft Auto V returns to having a nice elaborate logo intro where, after sitting through a small lightshow accompanied by the sounds of a car chase, police sirens, and gunfire, the Rockstar Games logo is formed from one of the stars of the series famous "Wanted Level."

The other Wide Open Sandbox games join in the fun as well, with Rockstar logos based on their theme:

Bully has the Rockstar logo appearing as the last of three targets - the first two fall as soon as they're hit by baseball balls, while the Rockstar Logo doesn't.

Terminal Reality's logo normally depicts a frightening, ghostlike face against a black background with the company's name below it. In Ghostbusters: The Video Game, it gets an appropriate sendoff: the name fades out after a second, and a Ghost Trap flies from offscreen left. The ghostly face is satisfyingly pulled into the trap's cone of light, which gives off a puff of smoke and beeps to confirm a successful capture. Fittingly, the game itself uses Columbia Pictures' 1980s-era logo.

Every Apogee Software game featured a different take on their theme and logo.

The flash game Gyossait features the tank in the Newgrounds logo abandoned and is covered in weeds.

In Bubsy II, on the screen showing Accolade's logo and slogan "Games With Personality," a paw takes off the "per" and replaces it with "purr."

For Call of Duty: Finest Hour, Spark included a bonus gag in the animation reel: a German soldier runs up to the logo, and, Pixar style, attempts to crush the "S." When he is unsuccessful, he pulls out a machine gun and shoots the letter down to size, after which it springs back up and propels him into the air.

Call of Duty: Black Ops has the developer and publisher's logos appearing on 60's-era paperwork, in the midst of several shots of American soldiers in Vietnam. Black Ops II has the developer's logo appearing over the background from the Strike Force loading screen, representing the normal time period, and then goes back to the paperwork-and-historical-footage for the publisher's logo, representing the flashback missions set in The '80s.

A few of the edutainment titles by Brøderbund Software would show their logo with a fanfare, followed by a character from the game in question slicing out the "o" to turn it into an "ø". To be more specific...

In Darby the Dragon, the title character flies around for a bit and uses his wand to slice out the "o".

In Gregory and the Hot Air Balloon, the fanfare first plays, and then the title character's dog-like pet lizard crawls around on the "o" causing the slice to fall out.

The Nintendo 64 port of Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn has the N64 logo appear in wireframe before filling in with color... and then a Commando runs up, plants C4, and blows it up.

The Team Fortress 2retraux fan game Gang Garrison 2 opens with a mock plate for "Faucet", an 8-bit rendition of Valve's plate. Except that here, someone actually opens the faucet, filling the "Faucet" logo on the bottom left with water.

Even though Bayonetta does show regular logos when the game is started, there is a nifty little Logo Joke in the prologue: The development team's logo (Team Little Angels) and the developing company's logo (PlatinumGames) appear on gravestones, as well as the names of the development team. This sequence then ends with Enzo taking a leak on the director's grave.

The Wonderful 101 is the first game from Platinum to show no logos upon starting the game, due to it being a Nintendo-published game. note Most, if not all, Nintendo-published games ever since the Wii's release do not display logos upon starting, due to the Nintendo logo already appearing on the game's start menu screen on the hardware's firmware. Instead, the Nintendo, Platinum, and dev team logos appear in the prologue on city buildings, along with names of the dev staff, then ending with the camera panning into the school bus.

realMyst starts with the original logo, then the circle within the logo itself changes into a sun that sets over a silhouetted Myst Island while the words "real Myst" form in front of it one by one, much like how the original Myst's logo formed against a black screen.

Riven began with a dark sphere most likely the Age of Riven itself within the Star Fissure with the company's name forming in front of it. Then the background changes to a cloudy blue sky, and the C of the logo then covers that, with the sphere serving as the center of the logo.

From Uru: Ages Beyond Myst onward, the company changed its name to Cyan Worlds. The animation they used from there was a hi-res version of the usual 3D polygonal landscape, except now with a Moiety dagger, and the Myst rocketship and library thrown in.

Sierra did one in its release of 3D Ultra Pinball: The Fastest Pinball in Space. After the usual fanfare plays, a strange cartoon character walks up carrying the words "Jeff Tunnel Productions", then stops, points to the logo and says, "Phew, Sierra!"

This troll-like character appears on the logo screen of several other Sierra games of the era; in 3D Ultra Pinball 3: The Lost Continent, he takes on a dinosaur-like appearance.

In Globdule, the "Psygnosis Presents" screen has Globdule in place of the Owlball.

In Earthworm Jim 3D, Earthworm Jim is dancing with an accordion when he is squashed by a falling Nintendo 64 logo, which is in turn squashed by a cow. (The PC version averts this by having a fridge instead of the N64 logo.)

Lords of Dogtown: The words "locals only" is spray-painted over the TriStar logo.

Look Who's Talking Too: The pegasus from the TriStar logo speaks (in a Mister Ed voice, of course of course).

"TriStar Pictures, where anything can happen!"

Richard Pryor commentates on Pegasus at the start of Another You.

The 'Gracie Films' logo at the end of The Simpsons has been altered for comedy a few times specific to the episode. At the end of every Halloween episode (with certain variants), the accompanying bit of music is played on a pipe organ, along with a woman's shrieking in lieu of the logo's usual "SHHHHH!" sound effect.

At the end of the crossover episode with Family Guy, the logo appears with the latter show's Peter Griffin heard singing along to the familiar nine-note electric piano theme. ("And now the show is over now".)

Gaumont Films:

The Crimson Rivers: A literal crimson river cuts through the map of the 90's logo and the space background at the end has a red tint as the logo fades into the opening credits.

For Storyboard, the last note would be reverbed as white streaks would fly in.

In the Lakeshore Entertainment title card for Underworld, the normally sunlit sky turns dark, and a full moon comes out.

National Treasure, The Jerry Bruckheimer production company had lightning striking a tree as its logo. The thunder sounds accompanying the logo faded into the thunder sounds of the storm in the first scene.

Even the "single bolt of lightning" is a reference in itself. The original logo was two lightning bolts striking in the same place from different parts of the screen — being the logo for Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer's company. After Don Simpson's death, Bruckheimer altered the logo to the single bolt of lightning it presently is.

Another ITV company who went along with the Logo Joke idea was Yorkshire Television - perhaps the best remembered example was their chevron logo zooming off like a firework in the titles to game show 3-2-1. It then explodes into the numbers "3", "2", "1", before diving back down and landing in a dustbin, magically animating it into the show's mascot, Dusty Bin.

Early editions of Tiswas featured the ATV logo running backward. It was eventually stopped.

A variation on LWT's red, white and blue 'ribbon' logo was used at the start of the interview show Russell Harty Plus, where the end of the ribbon would loop into a circle from which the picture would iris in.

The short-lived sketch show End of Part Onenote A Sound to Screen Adaptation of The Burkiss Way begins one episode with the ribbon starting at the top left of the screen as usual, but instead of turning horizontal to form the "L" it continues straight down and falls offscreen with a loud crash.

For Time Heist, the opening credits "time tunnel" are shown at the start of the episode... Which turns out to be Clara's washing machine with the Doctor peering into it.

Most of Series 8 and 9 had idents identical to the usual ones, but often with the Doctor briefly cutting in, and either (for the biker ident) a Dalek being in the crowd firing off lasers, or (for the hippo ident) the shadow of the TARDIS flying over the water.

The logo for Shadow Projects, involved in the production of a number of puppet shows, featured a dog. It would normally be heard barking at the end of one of these shows, but on Bear in the Big Blue House, sometimes it would make a different noise, such as meowing or quacking.

In the Marsupilami episode, "Toucan Always Get What You Want", Maurice grabs the NBC Peacock. To which the evil Jaguar named Eduardo said "I don't want no stinky bird today, My stomach is craving for the little spotty guy with the tail".

Ads for some NBC shows will sometimes play with the logo at the end of the ad. At the end of commercials for Revolution, the logo has a glowing yellow outline, and at the end of the commercials for Hannibal, the logo is blood red.

Gokaiger Goseiger Super Sentai 199 Hero Great Battle: The Toei logo is unchanged, but the Super Sentai 35th Anniversary logo is directly intergrated into the opening as Gosei Red is sent flying through it by the enemy, breaking it to reveal the Legend War. A second one occurs later in the movie when Yogoshimacritein mentions that the movie he was making in his dimension is a "Goei" production (Complete with his own Vanity Plate)- which Agri smashes with his FIST.

The third part of the Kamen Rider Decade and Double Movie Wars begins on a split screen, representing how Double's chasing of the Dummy Dopant will involuntarily converge with Decade's final battle against Super Shocker. Of course, both screens show the Toei logo twice.

In the Double and OOO Movie Wars, the Toei logo is shown in red, yellow, green and purple, mirroring the color schemes of both Riders' basic forms (green and purple for Double and red, yellow and green for OOO).

Liv and Maddie always uses this trope. No Disney Channel show loves this trope as much as this one does...

In "Flashback-A-Rooney" Liv sees the picture of Liv and Maddie when they were younger on their bedroom wall come to life, with their real faces in place of the drawing; consequently the Beck & Hart Productions Vanity Plate after the end credits has the real faces of creators John D. Beck and Ron Hart superimposed on their drawn bodies.

"Helgaween-A-Rooney" has the Helga drawing in the logo, with Beck and Hart presenting offerings of pizza and sandwiches while Helga is heard shouting "KNEEL BEFOREHELGA!"

"Rate-A-Rooney" has Beck and Hart holding up sheets of paper with "10" on them, with Karen saying "What'cha doing, Honeybunch?"

Promos for the American Life On Mars featured a 1970s ABC logo and an Ernie Anderson soundalike.

In a movie-oriented skit, Monty Python did a Terry Gilliam animated logo for "20th Century Vole" pictures, with a small furry rodent rising into the MGM crest with a squeak.

In And Now For Something Completely Different, it got changed to "20th Century Frog" along with a croaking frog in the crest. Either done because it sounded better or because it was assumed international moviegoers wouldn't know what a vole is.

"...Spectacle." And so on... This lasted until season 4, when both Dan Harmon and the Russo brothers both left the series. When Dan Harmon returned for season 5, the stock Harmonic Claptrap logo was used.

The Knights Of Prosperity had the B, & and B of the B&B animated logo perform a different magic act on every episode, such as the ampersand ("The Amazing Ando" - get it?) sawing the two B's apart.

The otherwise forgettable 1971 film The Christian Licorice Store doesn't have the Cinema Center Films logo (or indeed the title of the film) until about 15 minutes in when a character starts running a film on a home projector and the logo (and title) come up on screen. On the screen in the film, that is.

Take Me Home Tonight, set in 1988, opens with the 1980s version of the Imagine Entertainment logo (which is technically inaccurate, as the Imagine logo usually appeared at the end of their movies at the time).

On the occasions where the opponent's logo would be eaten, there were usually special versions as well. For example, a victory against the Baltimore Orioles would have the tiger spitting out orange feathers.

While the practice has declined in popularity, it used to be common for the Christmas issue of British gaming magazines to show the magazine logo covered in snow.

When Josh Schwartz's production company changed from College Hill Pictures to Fake Empire, the logo became a sketch pad with "FAKE EMPIRE" on it, though what's drawn on the pad depends on what show precedes it. See for yourself.

The network's first Game Show, WNET's We Interrupt This Week, ends with a loud chorus abruptly singing the last line of "Happy Birthday to You".

One documentary, Mouth Music, ended with a humorous a capella rendition of the otherwise creepy PBS Everymen logo's music.

The start of PBS's promo for Al Capone: Icon begins with the PBS circle in the center of the screen swinging upside-down, counterclockwise, as though the bottom of the circle was nailed to something and the top was loose.

Parodied in Funny Horsie, where every episode is seemingly produced by a different company (most often a parody of an ITV franchise, given that the "show" is supposedly an old British children's programme), but occasionally more ridiculous ones such as "Mrs. Thatcher Productions", "Clowns TV", "Courtney Love Productions" ("I MADE DIS.") and "Bollocks Television".

In Power Rangers (2017) the Saban Films logo is comprised of an amalgamation between the Saban 90s logo (the gold disc) the Saban late 90s-2000s logo (the Earth changing into a logo) the Saban Brands logo (in space)and the unused Saban Films logo (having the logo get claw marks)which leads to SCG appearing below it instead of Saban Films.

The Stephen J Cannell Productions logo has writer/producer Cannell typing at his desk and pulling out a sheet of paper, which lands on a stack and forms the logo. This is the logo for all the shows Cannell produced.

For Filmation’s sci-fi Western cartoon Bravestarr, the Filmation logo was accompanied by the sound of galloping horses and a whipcrack.

The animated film The Red Turtle has the Studio Ghibli logo (traditionally blue in color) shaded red.

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